The Comparison of Soundscape between Urban Residential and Gated-Residential in Indonesia

Abstract

Soundscape approach is one of an assessment tools for identifying acoustic environment and has an important part in shaping cities’ sustainability. In residentials, the good quality of the acoustics was expected to meet the residents expectation, in order to have a comfortable place to inhabit. But the existing condition often is contradictive with these expectations. In Indonesia there are some types of residentials with different characteristics, two of them are urban residential and gated-residential. The aim of this study was to compare soundscape between the two types of residential in Indonesia by identifying the sound sources. The most favourite and less-favourite sound sources also will be analysed. The research method used a qualitative method through an online questionnaire to identify the sound sources that perceived by respondents who lived in urban and gated-residentials in several cities in Indonesia. The result of this study shown the importance of context in shaping soundscape, especially in residentials. Different context with different acoustic environment resulting different sound sources which perceived by human in order to assess their comfort dimension in their residents.